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Wear nothing whilst making the entire game, upload webcam timelapse to amateur porn site when done.

Game must be code complete in the first 3 hours, if not, must start over. NO CODING AFTER THAT.

there you go, pick one or more from each section, or do your own thing, it’s only a mini after all.

regarding times, make the game across whatever 48 hour(ish) period you like, spend more than 48 hours or spend less, I don’t care. submissions will be open for probably about a week after the weekend noted above, but if you want to dev alongside others, make your game over that weekend

no I’m not gonna let you vote on a theme, but I haven’t settled on one so if you have any suggestions on theme or rules, feel free to drop them in the comments

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I know it’s not been long since I last hosted a mini, but this was originally a spot claimed by Terry, but he mentioned something about saving the world before lighting a cigar, getting on his motorbike then driving out the 2nd floor window and off into the distance. so I figured I’d take the spot now instead of September again

p.s. anyone who uses Valentines Day as an excuse not to take part is only going to look like an idiot, there’s nothing more romantic than making a game and dedicating it to your partner/spouse/sexbuddy/random-guy-on-a-train. 😉

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Sounds like it would be really interesting and fun, though for people like me it could be difficult to find something (I’ve used a LOT of different software and languages), and people will probably spend most of the compo learning to new tool/language instead of making a game. Could work well if it wasn’t for the short contest duration.

Rule idea: the game theme is TRUE LOVE. Make a love story, or a tragedy, or a soap opera, or a conversation-based japanese-style dating sim, or a romancing-the-stone RPG. The possibilities are endless, fits any game genre from rpg to platformer to shmup, and it would fit the Feb 14 date wonderfully.

I really like this idea 😀
The possibilities are endless, like make a plumber earn special powers by eating mushrooms and end up fighting a giant monster with a tortoise shell and that spit fire, just to rescue the woman he loves… xD
I agree that the theme should be TRUE LOVE 😛

I thought it was funny how many games seem to be named “Love” (Eskil’s 3D tools crazyfest, etc), so my totally joking suggestion is “The game is named Love”, akin to the silly themes one where you had to name your game a year.

Well, you don’t need to write “Love” in English… you could try to use into another languages, like Japanese (“Ai”), Portuguese (“Amor”), Swedish (“Kärlek”) and various other languages! Imagine that! A lot of weirdos names that, all of them, means “Love”! that will be funny xD

Well.. I guess this works as a birthday present for me. Although, I did plan on drinking heavity on the 14th. That may be my personal sub-theme… Coding while drunk. Or it might be avoiding the wife on valentines day/birthday.

Also, dedicating a game to your loved one is a great Valentine’s Day gift, but if you have no such person, Valentine’s Day is also a great day to get laid. Maybe someone else can figure out how to make that happen by spending the weekend at your computer making a video game…

sure it’s legit, I’m super relaxed with rules when it comes to the mini’s I host, and most other hosts are usually the same. usually its a case of “take regular rules, tweak them a little and make a game that way… if you want”

but of course you can do anything you like, when I host a mini it’s never competative, so it will be closer to a jam anyway

I’m going to pull one of my patented Mr. Dude’s Flake-Out moves and abandon the idea of Foxy Ninja being for the Mini-LD. I’ll still work on it, but not for the Mini. It’s taking way too much time to get it the way I want it.

I’ve got something in mind that I will do over the course of Friday morning (EST) Monday morning (EST) this weekend.

I will be using:
* Alternate universe spinoff of a major series (Touhou with fighting robots)
* 2-Button control (Mouse move + mouse click)
* Tool/language I’ve never used before (BulletML)

I’m pumped for this weekend! Until then, I’ve got shelved projects to revive!

If I don’t use a limitation, but use the “Software you’ve never used before” rule more than one, does it still count?

I’m using a level editor I’ve never used before, and I’m also going to use Gimp, which I’ve never used in a finished game before. Plus, I may even be using LMMS, which I’ve never used in a game before at all and have only fiddled with.

Question, by work with partner do you mean sexy partner, or generally another human? I know it’s not strict rules, but I’d like to know if I can claim that rule used, or if it’d not really be in the spirit of things.

either is fine, but if you can find a partner in ‘buddy cop’ movie style that would be best.

we could have this thing where you go outside the law to make your game, and I have to take away your badge and compiler, I throw you off the case but you make your game anyway and save the day, and I have to let you back on the force because the mayor is all on my ass about how you’re this big hero team now.

OK, I got my themes and things here…
Themes:
» True Love
» Tainted Love
Limitations:
» All audio must be your own voice
Rules:
» Game must be code complete in the first 3 hours, if not, must start over. NO CODING AFTER THAT.

I started the game, I got all the scripts I was going to use (I am using RPG Maker XP) and my “code part” is ready. But now I have a question now…

When you say ” All audio must be your own voice”, that means that the music of the game need to be my own voice too? ’cause it’s getting hard to make “good” musics here… and my voice aren’t the best to make music… ^-^’

I restarted my project… I found some bugs on my scripts and I needed to start all over xD
So… Last night I had a dream about an TETRIS… maybe someone already made something like that [or maybe not] but I dreamed that, so it will be amazing! and I will try to finish all today [I started today this new game… and the another one was getting giant…]…

Well… I just changed my Theme to “Tetris is now a game!”…

And I still don’t know if the musics need to be my own voice… but this one will not be a hard one to make musics… *singing Tetris theme*